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Frost, Rodney.

Creative kinetics : making mechanical marvels in wood / Rodney Frost ; photography by Leanne Fuchs. - New York, NY : Sterling, ©2008. - 140 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Includes index.

Weathercock -- Wind toys -- Mobiles -- Jumping jacks -- Talking heads -- Stabiles -- Puppets -- Moving Ball -- Cams -- Blues -- Wiggling eyebrows -- Cranks -- Shafts -- Slots & slides -- Drawings -- Star -- Eccentrics -- The angel -- Mystery -- Flywheels -- Zoetrope -- Pulleys -- Sounds -- People -- Interaction -- 2 + 2 = 5 or red? -- Weather toy -- Gravity -- What if?

Artist, inventor, and longtime author Rodney Frost is known for wacky, whimsical woodworking books that encourage readers to experiment. With his newest, most creative volume yet, he provides an introduction to the wild and whimsical world of kinetic art--art that moves. Using plenty of informative sidebars and dynamic illustrations, Frost teaches the basic techniques in his own inimitable style, beginning with easy, fun projects like weather vanes and mobiles powered by air currents alone. Then it's on to simple toys you manipulate with strings, and art mechanized by levers, cranks, cams, and cogs. Far from a routine woodworking book, Creative Kinetics will inspire even the least craft-minded reader to pick up some scissors and turn a tuna can into a propeller or cardboard into a jumping-jack.

ISBN: 9781402732232 1402732236

Source: 1272304 QBI

LCCN: 2006100969

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA779343 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 014051724 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Woodwork.
Wooden toy making
Kinetic art.

LC Class. No.: TT180 / .F8 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 684.08